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Toni Torino 2299 posts |
Aug 13, 2012, 09:01
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High Contrast - The Agony & The Ecstacy Kosmischeboy - Clockwerk David Holmes - Let's Get Killed Crewdson - Gravity The Stooges - The Stooges Sibelius - Finlandia Karelia Suite (Iceland Symphony Orchestra) Hatikvah - Synchronicity
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Maldoror 720 posts |
Aug 13, 2012, 15:54
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Wreck - Unsane King of Jeans - Pissed Jeans Generic - Flipper Aion of Drakon - Saturnalia Temple (can't stop listening!) Tectonics - Phobos
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riverman 845 posts |
Aug 13, 2012, 18:19
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Sylvester Anfang II - s/t Sylvester Anfang - Latitudes Kogumaza - s/t (on train back from Supernormal after their amazing set there) Om - Variations on a theme Crow Tongue - Ghost-Eye Seeker Long Distance Poison - Signals to a Habitable Zone. Two gorgeous 20 minute electronic pieces. Randy Holden - Population II Teeth of the Sea - Your Mercury Universal Panzies - Transcendental Floss Six Organs of Admittance - Luminous Night Six Organs of Admittance - The Sun Awakens Klaus Schultze - Irrlicht Berlioz - Requiem, Grande Messe des Morts. Had I not gone to Supernormal I'd like to have seen this at the Proms on Saturday. My parents went to a recent performance at St Pauls. It was an event apparently (huge orchestra and chorus) but my dad was a little disappointed as he said some of the sound was lost in the cavernous cathedral but chatting to him about Berlioz's use of space in the music, and arranging the brass in different places in the orchestra etc intrigued me. Thoroughly enjoying it.
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spencer 3071 posts |
Edited Aug 14, 2012, 05:06
Aug 14, 2012, 04:33
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I have taken the opportunity during summer road trips to Scotlands furthest and most beautiful reaches over the last three years to expose my more adventurous daughters to all sorts of stuff on the car cd player and see if they liked it. Those played this year were: 1) Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere/Zuma/Weld; 2) Pink Floyd - Meddle/Live at Pompeii; 3) Jimi Hendrix - The Best Of/Stockholm 9/1/69 second show. A good example of the type; ....to find that I now have female offspring who are mad for the likes of Neil, Jimi, Floyd and the rest and demand Cortez and Echoes on repeat amazes me and makes me VERY happy. I feel that I've done something right with my life. 4) David Bowie - Live at BBC 2002; 5) Smoke Fairies - Through Low Light And Trees. All my daughters now love 'em; 6) Pentangle - Cruel Sister/Anthology 7) Shack - HMS Fable; 8) Beach Boys - Pet Sounds; 9) Santana - Moonflower; 10) Portishead - Dummy; 11) Boards of Canada - In A Beautiful Place In The Country.. I love the Boards, me. This is their best /Geogaddi..there is a track on this called The Beach at Redpoint. Redpoint is near Gairloch, and is one of our favourite places. Jay Kay lives just down the road. T'other year a pine marten broke in and totally trashed his kitchen. Gold Star:) 12) John Martyn - In Session; 13) Talk Talk - Laughing Stock; 14) Dave Brubeck - Take Five; 15) V/A .. And Someone Left A Cake Out In The Rain- A Tribute to Jimmy Webb.....there is some brilliance on this; 16) The Necks - Hanging Gardens...suspicion that it'd be very good for the motorway confirmed; 17) Marvin Gaye - What's Going On; 18) Procol Harum - Live With The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra; 19) V/A - Classical Chillout; 20) William Orbit - Pieces In A Modern Style. I have a rip of part the original version of this, which included version of Cantus and Fratres from Arvo Parts Tabula Rasa. Part gave Orbit permission to use them, then changed his mind on eve of release. The album had to be rerecorded with different tracks. About 200 of the original version got sold though...and is stunning. Music for the end of the world; 21) REM - Live At The Olympia.. the girls were already fans via their mum when I bought this for them just prior to our first roadtrip three years ago. Didn't tell 'em, sneaked it into the player just before we set off, and hit the play button as we hit the M1 sliproad. I will never forget the look on their faces. Played constantly on that trip and last year, less so this. A gorgeous version of Cuyahoga sums up our adventures. Never the greatest fan of REM meself - only ever bought Murmur, and think they were right to quit, but saw them live twice at close quarters and enjoyed hugely. A very 'human' band. This is an album of their less well known stuff, without exception better than the original studio versions. Very good for the road. Last good REM album? This one. A great live band. Check out the acoustic version of their greatest song Country Feedback with Neil Young at the Bridge School Benefit on youtube; 22) The Waterboys - This Is The Sea/ Best Of..bought virtually blind just before this holiday. Thought they'd fit the mood. Didn't. Sorry, Mike......... Solitary late night winddowns: 1) John Martyn/Danny Thompson - Live at the Brewery Arts Centre; rapidly superceeded by 2) Paul Kantner+Jefferson Starship - Blows Against The Empire for the duration. Ranted about separately .......finally, post hol sesh round at my best mates, leader of a 70's/80's Yorkshire band known to but not necessarily liked by some here.. 1) Steve Miller Band - Fly Like An Eagle; 2) Jah Lion - Colombia Colly; Grace Jones - Private Life; 3) Sun Araw, Gengras, Congos - Icon Give Thank. THANK YOU to those here who first made me aware of Sun Araw; 4) Boards - Beautiful Place again...all of it. Not a duff note... 5) Pentangle again... 5) John Martyn - Johnny Too Bad. Bliss; 6) Doors - Orange County Suite; 7) Fripp and Eno - Beyond Even ....and I forget the rest...
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Maldoror 720 posts |
Aug 14, 2012, 05:02
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spencer wrote: ....to find that I now have female offspring who are mad for the likes of Neil, Jimi, Floyd and the rest and demand Cortez and Echoes on repeat amazes me and makes me VERY happy. I feel that I've done something right with my life. Cool. :-)
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spencer 3071 posts |
Edited Aug 14, 2012, 05:32
Aug 14, 2012, 05:31
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One of the moments in your life when you go "Yes!". Proud dad.
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mcshafty 86 posts |
Edited Aug 14, 2012, 09:17
Aug 14, 2012, 09:03
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NEW: Dave Graney & The Mistly - You've Been In My Mind FRKWYS Vol. 9 Sun Araw & M. Geddes Gengras meet The Congos - Icon Give Thank Fat Paul - Blakk Metal (If 10 minutes counts! I'll have to save this one for the right mood). If you want something dark and ambient to mong out to I'm sure it'll be right up your dark alley. Keep 'em comin' Black Sheep. OLD: Dr John - Babylon Vivian Stanshall - Men Opening Umbrellas Ahead
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bubblehead2 2167 posts |
Edited Aug 15, 2012, 10:30
Aug 15, 2012, 10:29
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In the house... OREN AMBARCHI - Sagittarian Domain - Single 33 minute Faustian groove, excellent ! MOTORPSYCHO - The Death Defying Unicorn - Their magnum opus ? Maybe. Recent rich vein of form continues that's for sure. PEAKING LIGHTS - Lucifer - Very much enjoyed 936, this seems even better on first plays. EL DOOM & the BORN ELECTRIC - The Teeth That Match My Wounds 7" - Preposterous yet brilliant. SPACEMEN 3 / SUN ARAW - split 7" In the car... DR JOHN - Babylon V/A - Dread Meets Punk Rockers Uptown - Compiled by Don Letts, and a truly excellent selection it is too. V/A - The Sun Is Shining - Mojo JA comp from a few years back, enjoyable. Happy listening Heads.
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Stevo 6664 posts |
Edited Aug 17, 2012, 11:30
Aug 16, 2012, 22:35
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Mothers of Invention Weasels Ripped My Flesh Loud & in your face the more avanty rockin compi lp from just after the original Mothers of Invention split. Been really enjoying this. Frank Zappa Hot Rats Zappa's 2nd solo lp inspired by his dissatisfaction with the rhythm section of the recently split MOI. Largely instrumental except for the Don van Vliet sung Willie The Pimp. Sound is great, & I don't know if I've actually heard the longer version of Gumbo Variations. Pretty satisfied with what's on here. Zappa various live sets 69,71, 72 & 73 Checked the '71 because of the live sets on the Zappa reissue campaign and realise that I'm not missing anything by not grabbing them. Don't think I'm that into the Flo and Eddie beginnings of Zappa smut. Do like the Turtles & the Crossfires though. There si some pretty ok extended instrumental stuff on that set though. '72 and '73 both have the liquid jazz influenced stuff featured largely. Zappa at his best to me is the Stravinsky/Gamelan/jazz influenced stuff or the earlier garagey Mothers stuff. Not into the overly smutty stuff The Pontiacs Bursting great psych stuff from South America sounds very 60s influenced but does have bits where a more overt Spacemen 3 type influence appears. Think this was a limited edition of 100 or thereabouts.Gets pretty sublime in places. Cosmic Dead s/t Heavy spacey psychy stuff, another limited edition that may be gone by now. Can get lost in those grooves. Trying to work out if the first track, Black Rabbit has more than nominal connection with Skullflower's track of the same name. Here it's dragged out to 18 minutes in a way somewhat reminiscent of Loop or Spacemen 3 but more rocked up. Skullflower tried to beat it into the mud for 4 and a bit minutes but I think the central riff is somewhat similar. worth checking out anyway, nice to know there is good stuff currently being made. Grateful Dead 21/8/80 was struck by how good they sounded at this point. Energetic, could be seen as an update on something like the '68/'69 sound. Probably a bit more mature and less psychedelic than that but great nonetheless. Neil Young & Crazy Horse 3/8/12 still bringing it on. Nice grungey stuff wish I was going to see this live. Dead Meadow 12/11/11 Wombadelic heaviosity. I should listen to this band more. Mothers of Invention Absolutely Free Great sounding remaster of the Mothers 2nd lp. I can now get into the long instrumental which I don't think I could enjoy anywhere near as much on the old Ryko version. Really getting into this record anyway. " We're Only In It For The Money the old Ryko version. It wasn't one of those remastered in this campaign. I guess it still sounds ok. Zappa was supposed to splash on the electronic reverb on all of the remasters of at least the 60s stuff he did before he died. But at least this no longer has the new rhythm section he grafted on in the mid 80s. Graham Bond & Pete Brown 6/8/72 just been reading Pete Brown's autobio so heavily coincidental that this live set turns up at the same time. Though Brown has just been doing live readings from the book this week. None anywhere near here so finding this in my 2nd hand/remainder bookshop may or may not have something to do with more copies being circulated. This was a coupe of years before Graham Bond fell under a train. I think it sounds pretty good. Heavy grooves with Brown singing and Bond playing organ.Last few songs on set get drawn out to around 10 minute + length. Rotomagus The Sky Turns Red largely 3 piece heavy stuff almost Stooges like intensity but can have more proggy complexity. This cd consists of a demo lp that the band cut in '71 as a 3 piece, hoping to get a contract to flesh it out properly that never came and it sounds great rough. The rest is singles and other demos. When I say largely 3 piece, the first single is here and was recorded when the band still had several other members. They had started out as a harmony group an influence that shows here though the band had already begun to get a bit rougher and more complex musically. That first single was the only one recorded for their original label, after that they split up. Then the 2 brothers who had been central to the band returned along with a drummer and the band recorded another, heaver single for a different label CBS. Anyway this is reccommended proto-punkyness. I think JC himself was extolling them last month. Fugs Tenderness Junction The first '68 lp by the East Village scatologists. I thought it sounded better as a psychedelic rock lp than its follow up It Crawled Into My Hand honest. I've just finished Fug You their singer Ed Sanders' 60s memoir which was a great read. I love The Garden Is Open on here, a song about springtime frolics with youthful women I think. The band they had at the time was pretty good anyway. Henry Cow In Praise Of Learning Love this record but found at least its lead off track War's percussiveness didn't lean too well to quiet listening as I went to sleep. This is after the band had absorbed Dagmar Krause from Slapp Happy and her harsh teutonic vox are all over it. I really like her singing style but could see how other people might not fully appreciate it. Lp is alot more avant than they started out being but I think is pretty essential possibly because of that. some other stuff which will probably come back to me later the usual surprises from my walkman. Still love the way this segues tracks but I'm now getting worried that the battery may be on its way out & it's supposed to be a tricky job replacing it while keeping the display working. reading Strontium Dog & related stories read up to the death of Johnny Alpha, through the Grant Morrison stories following Feral & the Gronk after JA's death. & through the young Middenface McNulty stories. Now reading the stories looking back at earlier events throughout JA's life from when the character was brought back later in 2000AD. Flapper by Joshua Zeitz the wayward female fashion type in jazz age America. This book has been criticised for being so focused on the white female to such an extent to the almost complete exclusion of other races. Black influence during the jazz age etc would have been interesting. But it is an interesting read, so far it's been talking a lot about Zelda & Scott Fitzgerald. Thought I'd missed this book after seeing it on the shelves a couple of weeks back but found a copy on the pile above the bookshelves and managed to get it down. White Rooms and Imaginary Westerns: Ginsberg, Clapton and Cream an Anarchic Odyssey by Pete Brown Autobio of 60s/70s poet/singer and Cream lyricist. Been very interesting so far. think I'm up to about 1973. Started off with him talking about his Jewish upbringing from the 40s - the 60s before he started getting bohemian and hitching around the country. I hadn't realised he was pretty straight from drink/drugs throughout his time with Battered ornaments/Piblokto after stoner days to the mid 60s. The travels of Ibn Battuta translated by Tim Hodgkinson Smith the 14th century travels of a Moroccan throughout the known Islamic world. He traveled as far as China at the time and over the course of about 30 years. Hoping to get through the book this time, have been distracted every time I've picked it up over the last number of years. Looks like he traveled several times as far as Marco Polo, who was the most exotically traveled Westerner in popular thought had done, so if I don't leave the book lying around again this should be very interesting Stevo
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achuma 503 posts |
Aug 19, 2012, 16:08
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Good to see you've found the Rotomagus cd, I was surprised to do a search and find no other posts about it! (Surprised because the Seth Man's review here years back, in his Tetes Lourdes bootleg compilation review, was where I first heard of these guys.) I just realised a couple of months back that it had finally come out, and bought a copy as fast as I could ;-) Well worth it! The booklet is really packed with info. One thing that struck me though, was that the single version of 'Fighting Cock' (as opposed to the live studio jam demo version also on the cd) sounds weaker than the copy on Tetes Lourdes. Should be louder! A small complaint, though. Well done Lion Productions!
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